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Contents:
- STEPHEN KG CHAMPNS ‘IT CHAPTER TWO’ GAY CHARACTER SURPRISE: ‘KD OF GENI’
- IS RICHIE FROM IT GAY IN THE BOOK?
- IT CHAPTER TWO GAY CHARACTERS: THE TE STORY BEHD HARROWG HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK
STEPHEN KG CHAMPNS ‘IT CHAPTER TWO’ GAY CHARACTER SURPRISE: ‘KD OF GENI’
Is Richie gay 'IT Chapter 2’? Bill Har plays the character the new movie, and he harbors a secret attractn to one of his bt iends. * it book gay character *
Kg’s origal novel featured the btal murr of a young gay man, which was spired by the 1984 murr of Charlie Howard Bangor, Mae. Watch what the filmmakers had to tell about Richie the vio Chapter Two ma text what had only been subtext Stephen Kg's origal book: wise-crackg Losers' Club member Richie Tozier is a gay man, and has romantic feelgs for his fellow Loser Eddie character's sexualy had been hted at the book, and over the years many fans theorized that he had more feelgs than jt iendship for Eddie.
The film's openg sequence picts a btal hate crime agast a gay uple, which sets the stage for how unwelg this Mae town is to the LGBTQ+ muny and the chillg effect such open homophobia and bigotry would have had on Richie, who cid to stay the closet even after movg away and fdg fame and fortune stand-up Har wanted the film to m fully to makg Richie gay or to not even brg up. "Har also poted out that the perds that the book was set were very different tim for gay characters than what morn dienc would expect this film to portray. In this scene, set Derry's ar, young Richie (Fn Wolfhard) has homophobic slurs hurled at him by the bully Henry Bowers after a game of Street Fighter between Richie and Henry's .
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IS RICHIE FROM IT GAY IN THE BOOK?
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This was 1992 and I only knew the word “gay” om the eveng news and locker room tnts.
Gay meant lghable. Gay meant perverted. Gay meant AIDS and sickly ath.
IT CHAPTER TWO GAY CHARACTERS: THE TE STORY BEHD HARROWG HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK
Somethg was wrong wh gays, said the policians. Gays served what they got, said the flocks of the fahful.
And if I was gay, then I’d serve whatever I got too. An early sectn of the novel scrib a gay bashg and the vlent murr of Adrian Mellon, a gay man, wh all the homophobic language my 13-year-old vobulary ntaed.
The openg sectn is, undoubtedly, filled wh problematic stereotyp and hateful language, but when the bulli and the ps toss their anti-gay slurs around, they are not celebrated for . The gay-bashg is the first evince the rear gets that evil is returng to the town of Derry; that somethg terribly unnatural is afoot, and ’s not homosexualy. When we get to the head of Don Hagarty, Adrian’s boyiend, and the thor lets the rear know him his own thoughts—the first time I’d ever known a gay person outsi of the news—he’s sympathetic.